BrasíliaBrazil cleared 3,335 square kilometres of Amazon in a year.
Clearance has fallen every year since 2022, down 71.2% over four years.
Lula tightened monitoring and penalties for illegal logging, reversing Bolsonaro-era losses of 11,600 square kilometres a year.
Lula faces Flávio Bolsonaro in the run-off on 25 October, with polls showing them neck and neck.
How each outlet framed it
drawn from 70+ reports worldwide
- Al Jazeera Online leans favorable
- credits Lula's policy with the drop, quoting Capobianco's 'stratospheric' and Lula's 2030 zero-illegal-deforestation goal
- BBC
- frames the figures against the Oct 25 run-off, noting polls are neck-and-neck and Flavio Bolsonaro would continue his father's policies
Sources: Al Jazeera Online, BBC